Tuesday Cardinal Couple - All M&M Team

M&Ms are a favorite candy (and registered trademark of Mars, Inc...some legal blah blah here), but they also are the initials for some fantastic UofL athletes.

So, I present the Cardinal Couple 2015 All-M&M team.

First Team

Mariya Moore

Most Cardinal Couple readers will be familiar with Mariya Moore.  Currently in Russia playing with the U19 US National Team, Mariya is well known as a guard on the UofL Women's Basketball team with quite the shooting touch.  If the U19 play is any indication, she's been developing some defensive prowess as well.  A rising sophomore, we should be seeing Moore in the red and black for another three seasons.

Maya McClendon

Maya McClendon's older sister made quite an impact playing at perennial Volleyball powerhouse Penn State.  Maya is shorter, at only 5'9" compared to her sister's 6'1", but has more hops and may very well be a better overall player.  A rising junior, McClendon has another two years of play to build her legacy.  The McClendon's are from Louisville, and both sisters attended duPont Manual High School just across Cardinal Blvd from  UofL.  Maya typically plays the full rotation on the court, but may see a break from passing duties this year with Erin Fairs being expected to play full rotation as well.

Morgan Miller

Sticking with Volleyball, we have an incoming freshman from Magnolia Texas (Magnolia High School).  Sharing a hometown with last year's libero Roxanne McVey (but different high school), Morgan is just loaded with the "M"'s, with both first and last names, hometown, and high school all being "M"'s.  Miller is listed as a setter and right side hitter.  With a whopping four setters listed on the UofL Volleyball roster, and Katie George returning, I wouldn't expect to see Morgan taking the 2nd hit very often, but as the only player listed as right side, you may very well see her on the court quite a bit, depending on whether another player shifts over to the right side to play (I'm thinking the play-anywhere Janelle Jenkins might go to the right side this year).

Morgan Meyer

Morgan Meyer and Morgan Miller have already proven that they can make me stop and make sure I'm saying the right name when trying to talk about either of them because the names are so phonetically similar.  They are on totally different teams, though.  Meyer is a rising junior on the softball and is listed as an outfielder.  This past season, however, we mostly saw the speedster Meyer as a pinch runner, typically coming in to round the bases in lieu of slugger Brittany Duncan.  With two of the four graduating seniors this past year being outfielders, or at least occasionally in the outfield, I hope Meyer will get some more time in the field and at bat this year.  "Mo" Meyer is also a Louisvillian, having attended Mercy Academy.

Michelle Molodynia

Speaking of speedsters, Michelle is on both the Cross Country and Track teams.  Technically this makes her a three sport athlete as the NCAA considers Indoor Track&Field to be a separate sport from Outdoor Track&Field.  Michelle is the only women's athlete that I didn't know about before beginning research for this team.  A rising Senior, Molodynia hails from Niagara Falls, Ontario.  You would think, as a Cross Country runner, she would stick to the distance events for T&F, but she is listed as a middle-distance runner, competing in the 800meter to 1mile range of events.

Second Team

While Cardinal Couple is primarily about women's athletics at UofL, I'll add a second team honor for the M&M guys.

Mangok Mathiang

Another basketball name that you probably know already.  Mangok, joined with Montrezl Harrell to begin a trend of odd silent letters in names.  He also continued a trend of excellence.  Born in Sudan Africa, he is a resident of Melbourne Australia, Mathiang represented his home country down under in the World University Games.  While the Aussies didn't fair too well overall in the basketball competition, Mangok led the WUGs competition in rebounding and ended up 8th in scoring with five double-doubles.  A rising sophomore, he graduated in the same class with lock-down UofL soccer defender Chatham DeProspo from IMG Academy in Florida.

Marcus Motill

The only other name that I didn't know before beginning research for this team selection, Marcus is also a runner on the Track&Field team primarily competing in the indoor season.  He has run everything from 60meter to 1000meter in the indoor season, and has added in 60meter hurdles, high jump, long jump, pole vault, shot put and heptathlon in the indoor season.  Motill has also run the 400meter in the outdoor season.  A rising junior, he hails from Stamford, CT.

JMcA

It's Raining Mud Pies and Victories

With or without the Holiday - Tuesday is still Sandy's Laundry Day

TUESDAY CARDINAL COUPLE

Columnist Sandy Walker takes us on her weekly journey through Cardinal women's sports. We think you'll enjoy her new feature that takes a look back at some classic sports moments from the days when gasoline was 30 cents a gallon and rap was something you did on a door to announce your presence. 

 

 This weekend’s rain has caused the laundry to be particularly messy and it is taking forever to complete each article.  The mud puddles combined with Bill the Goat knocking over the tailgating food table left every piece of clothing in a mess.  Add Timmy’s decision to make and sell mud pies as a fundraiser for the School for Exceptional Primates during tailgating and then throwing the left-over’s at Coco did not help as every clothing item is now requiring soaking and spot washing.  Happily, with the win over the Kitty Cats no one cares too much or became upset over the stained clothes.   The clean-up is nothing like what is needed for many of the kittens who either didn’t make it to their litter boxes in time or who ran out of litter.

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 INSTRUCTIONS INCLUDED

 

·          Get a bucket of hot soapy water.

·          Place the washboard inside the hot soapy water.

·          Take one clothing item and soak it in the bucket.

·          Press the clothing up against the metal ridges of the washboard and rub it up and down.

·          Squeeze clothing item to dump the dirt off of it.

·          The cycle is repeated a second time to make sure all of the dirt has been removed from the clothing.

·          The clothing is then rinsed out in plain water and hung out to dry.eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/how-does_4672467_a-washboard-work.html#ixzz25RIoyCxS

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RESULTS

Congratulations are sent to each of the Women’s Card Teams this weekend as it is an easy week to report outcomes.  All matches from each of these teams (Volleyball {KY match and Battle of the Bluegrass Tournament Winners}  Field Hockey, Soccer, Cross Country) with events in the last week are reported as WINS.

A special salute goes to the Louisville Women’s Cross Country Team whose win at the Mid-America Opener reported the following results:

WOMEN'S TEAM RESULTS
1. LOUISVILLE, 25; 2. Evansville, 30; Oakland City, NTS; Kentucky Wesleyan, NTS

  

Michelle Molodynia

                                                                                         

Maria Frigo

WOMEN'S INDIVIDUAL RESULTS
2. Michelle Molodynia, 14:56.27; 4. Maria Frigo, 15:26.00; 5. Kelsey Cramsey, 15:55.98; 6. Leah Kiyohara, 15:56.32; 8. Paige Dooley, 16:03.07; (11.) Cassie Martin, 16:17.46

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HOW IT WAS

Prior to Title IX, girls and women took on various tasks and lived circumstances which are now humorous but at the time were just how it was if we wanted to be able to play any level of organized sports.  I hope that on a weekly basis to be able to share one or more of the situations women found themselves in due to their desire to compete but I need help from our readers.  If anyone has stories they would like to share please add them to the comments section, or pick up your rotary phone and e-mail me at Swalker0005@gmail.com.

As a Starter: One Louisville, KY Academy school was able to pay their basketball referees by waiting until after the game was over and collecting the soda machine change which had accumulated during the week and the game. 

                                 

                                        

The referees were then paid with the quarters, dimes and nickels from the machine sales.

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SHE’S BACK!

As of Sunday’s game Angel is back.  Not only was she physically back on the Atlanta Dream court she also is back in form as 18 of her 24 game points (7-8 from the field in 4^th quarter) were scored during the 4^th quarter. The Dream were able to pull away from an end of 3^rd quarter tie to a 87-80 win.  

I am looking for this year’s playoff outcome to end differently for the Dream as Angel finally has assistance from others.  Opponents can no longer key solely only Angel as in the Dream’s defeat of the Connecticut Sun as Erika De Souza and Sancho Lyttle both had double doubles with 14 points and 12 rebounds and 15 points and 13 rebounds respectively.

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VOLLEYBALL

Friday night’s 25-23, 25-12 and 25-17 win over Duke in the first round of the Cardinal Classic KFC Yum! Center was the team’s 800^th win.  The weekend's 3-0 sweep resulted in its win of the Tournament. Marshall and Samford were the other victims.  This win was preceded by their 3-1 upset win over #10 ranked Kentucky on Wednesday night.

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The Cards downed Ball State 5-0 on Monday at Trager Stadium. Louisville scored there first goal just two minutes into the contest and led 4-0 at the half.  The first big road trip of the season awaits with games at Ohio and Indiana later this week.  
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